[rescue] cassette?

[Don Y]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Fri, 28 Apr 2006 @ 10:04 -0400, Ethan O'Toole said:
>>> Don't even bother transferring them to the computer, just go fetch the
>>> MP3s. You have a license to the album, so...
>>
>> That's what I did two weeks ago.  Hard to find good quality mp3s though.
>> Most peole make really crappy encodings.
> 
> Will make high-quality encodings for money ....   or just if you ask
> nicely  :)

Heh heh heh...  any suggestions for hardware (data acquisition)
and software to record (digital) high quality *voice*?  Or, is
the presence of a "computer" (fans, etc.) just an insurmountable
issue?

E.g., am I better off recording to tape and then "tape-to-pc"
to keep the noise floor low?